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• An individual's greatness cannot be judged objectively by his or her contemporarie
  he most objective evaluators of a person's greatness are people who belong to a later time....
• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.
  Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. -- Albert Camu...
• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps. SARRAUTE
• Birthdays are healthy, those who have more of them live longer.
• Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale!
• You and I as individuals can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but only for a limited period of time.
  Why should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?...
• Those that live by the sword KILL those who don'
• Only those who attempt the absurd can acheive the impossible.
• The only ones who have a right to live are those not yet born. -- Yossarian, Rio Bisbee Band